Witch hazel

Or “Hamamelis virginiana”. Blooming in the winter!

Photo taken on the east side of SIUC’s Life Science III building with Nikon AW110 in macro mode.

Species page at PhytoImages, http://phytoimages.siu.edu/cgi-bin/dol/dol_terminal.pl?taxon_name=Hamamelis_virginiana&rank=binomial

1 year ago (“Our own version of ‘March Madness’ (post #800)”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-03-05
2 years ago (“Half-a-tree, half-asleep”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-03-05
3 years ago (“Qu’est-ce que c’est II?”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-03-05

[Danette Thompson]

I never knew it was a flower. Very pretty.

[Rick Schies]

When you hear witch hazel you just think of it in a bottle, n ot a flower